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housekeeping
Yesterday your mouth tasted like dustand I found myself trying to sweep it away with the broom.In ancient Incan culture there is a beliefthat bones belong to their owneruntil that owner dies.Sometimes...
View Article"Sometimes I want to pull back my hair and lean over the toilet bowl until my...
“Sometimes I want to pull back my hair and lean over the toilet bowl until my soul escapes and swims through the pipes, but then I think of the way your hipbones jut out like handles so I put my soul...
View Articlethis isn't about my sister
Someone tells me my sister is learning to wear her bodylike a winter parka,something she can hide inuntil the cold passes.At summer camp she braided her blonde hair into a nooseand tried to hang...
View Articletheories of love
There are 243 theories about love.The first contends that women are like oceansand men drown in them so they can reach the coral reefswhere the water kisses the ocean floor.The second says ripe...
View Articlethe only good part in being unable to sleep is reading your poems god bless...
I am sending you a thousand hearts in my mind.If you are finally able to fall asleep, I hope you dream of beautiful things. x
View Article"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your...
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” - Virginia Woolf (via larmoyante)
View Article"I’m not a broken vase for you to glue back together and fill with flowers,...
“I’m not a broken vase for you to glue back together and fill with flowers, she said. I don’t want your love. Don’t rescue me. And he replied, I don’t love you. I was only going to call the ambulance.”...
View Articlesmall wars
I’m trying to unpin the grenade that is your bodyso I can toss you away from me, but you’re burning like a bridgeand there’s no fire escape between your thighs.We made a list of thirty-four excuses for...
View Article"It’s crushing, this defeat as if your heart had been run over but you have...
“It’s crushing, this defeat as if your heart had been run over but you have to stick it back in your chest and close the hole.” - Wounded
View Article"It’s okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet, to drink all the wine,...
““It’s okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet, to drink all the wine, to do what it takes to stay, without staying. It’s okay to hate God today, to change his name to yours, to want to ruin all...
View ArticleI notice you like to reference burning buildings in your writing. I also...
You know me.Thank you for that.
View Articlehow do you cure writer's block?
When you have writer’s block you go to the library and you browse all the shelves and check out as many books as you can carry, and then you take them home and hold them in your hands like a lover and...
View Articlethe fire.
warsanshire:-what did we do to our childrento make them want to burn downtheir own homes?
View Articlegraveyard girl
if i could say anything to my future daughter,it would be this:you’ll be the girl that walks through the graveyardjust to feel the bodies moving underneath you,& you’ll want to touch a man like...
View ArticleThere's a Story About Us
mrepic92:Dedicated to Writings for Winter, a great poet, the first girl to ever steal my heart with her words. There’s a story about us,About how a lonely writer fell in love with a poet,How the stars...
View ArticleI once wrote a poem/and translated it/into another language./It was more...
Well damn.(I know that wasn’t a very poetic answer; I’m sorry, but your writing was too lovely to think of another response)
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